Free CMMS and OEE Tracker for Machinery and Fabrication Plants
Track the losses specific to machinery and fabrication work, changeovers, tooling waits, short jam stops, free in your browser, then hand the whole loop to Fabrico when the plant is ready to automate.
The short answer
- Open the free OEE tracker at oee-tracker.html and log your first machining or fabrication shift in about 2 minutes, no account needed.
- It gives you instant OEE, availability, performance, quality, a downtime Pareto for spotting your worst changeover or jam stop, a work orders board, a PM schedule, and an asset register.
- Machinery and fabrication plants lose most of their time to tooling changeovers, fixture waits, short jams and misfeeds, exactly the losses this free tracker is built to surface.
- When you outgrow manual logging, Fabrico reads OEE straight off your PLCs, finds the true cause of every micro-stop on video, and auto-routes the work order, book a demo to see it on your line.
Machinery and fabrication shops run a different loss profile than a single high-volume line. A CNC cell loses time to tool changes and probing. A press or brake loses time to die changeovers and material handling. A weld or assembly cell loses time to fixture waits and short jams that nobody logs because they are gone in ninety seconds. None of that shows up on a paper traveler, and by the time someone tallies it at the end of the week the real cause is a guess.
The free OEE tracker at OEE Lab exists to fix that first step cheaply. Log a shift, tag the stops, and you get a real availability, performance and quality breakdown plus a downtime Pareto that shows exactly which category (changeover, tooling, jam, starved, blocked) is eating your day. Pair it with the downtime cost calculator to put a number on what a recurring changeover delay is actually costing, or run the hidden factory calculator to see how much capacity is buried in small stops nobody tracks.
This page is honest about where a free, manual tool tops out. You are still the one walking the floor, entering the shift, and writing the work order. For a single cell or a pilot line, that is a fair trade for zero cost. Once machinery and fabrication losses are multi-line, multi-shift and worth automating, the next step is a platform that reads the PLC, sees the true cause of the stop on video, and routes the work order itself, that is what Fabrico does.
What you get, free
2-minute shift logging
Log run time, output, good/scrap counts and stop reasons for a CNC cell, press line or weld station in about 2 minutes, right in your browser.
Instant OEE breakdown
See availability, performance and quality separately, so you can tell a changeover problem apart from a tooling-speed problem or a quality problem at a glance.
Downtime Pareto for machinery losses
Tag stops as changeover, tooling wait, jam, fixture wait, starved or blocked and instantly see which category is your biggest thief.
Work orders board
Raise a work order the moment you spot a recurring die, tool or fixture issue, and track it through to done on a simple board.
PM schedule and asset register
Keep a preventive-maintenance schedule and an asset list for your machines, dies, tooling and fixtures in one place.
85% benchmark, shareable scorecard, and export
Compare your shift against a world-class 85% OEE benchmark, share a scorecard with the team, and export everything to CSV or JSON, install it as a PWA for the shop floor.
Log one shift and the free tracker shows your OEE, your loss Pareto and how you compare to world-class. Add work orders and preventive-maintenance reminders in the same place.
Where free stops, and Fabrico begins
The free tracker is built for getting started fast and for one plant on one device. When a site gets serious about its losses, the manual steps start to cost more than they save. This is exactly where Fabrico takes over.
| Capability | Free OEE Lab tracker | Fabrico |
|---|---|---|
| Data capture | Log each shift by hand in about 2 minutes, data stays in your browser. | Reads OEE automatically off your PLCs, no manual entry. |
| Micro-stop cause | You investigate sub-5-minute stops yourself, changeover creep, tool waits, short jams, and note the reason. | Computer vision identifies the true cause of each micro-stop, with video evidence. |
| Loss-to-fix loop | You spot the loss, then raise the work order yourself on the board. | A detected loss becomes an auto-routed work order, assigned automatically. |
| Scope and multi-site | One plant on one device and browser, best for a single cell or shift. | Plant-wide and multi-site from one central cloud view. |
| Integrations | Standalone, run it on its own, export data when you need it elsewhere. | Integrates with PLCs, MES, and ERP so OEE flows with your stack. |
| Access and roles | Local device sign-in with people and roles on that one device. | Org SSO with roles across the plant and a full audit trail. |
| Security posture | Data stays local in your browser, on the device you use. | SSO, roles, and audit trail that support audit-readiness (ISO 27001, 20000-1, 9001). |
| Reporting | Instant OEE, availability, performance, quality, a downtime Pareto, and CSV/JSON export you run yourself. | Live plant-wide dashboards plus scheduled reports delivered automatically. |
| Scale | The best genuinely free way to start on one cell or line, today. | The professional platform you graduate to as the plant gets serious. |
Frequently asked questions
Is this free CMMS actually free for machinery and fabrication shops, or is it a trial?
It is genuinely free, no trial clock and no signup to start. You open the tracker, log a shift, and your data stays in your browser on your device. There is no credit card and no expiry.
What losses does it help me find in a machining or fabrication cell?
The downtime Pareto is built for exactly this: tag stops as changeover, tooling wait, jam, fixture wait, starved or blocked, and you will quickly see whether your worst loss is die changeover time, a slow tool cycle, or short jams that add up across a shift.
Can I run more than one machine or line on it?
Yes, on one device and browser you can track multiple assets in your register and log shifts for each. It is built for a single plant on a single device though, if you need one central view across multiple lines or sites, that is where Fabrico's plant-wide and multi-site dashboards come in.
How is this different from Evocon or a spreadsheet?
Evocon focuses on OEE-specific real-time monitoring, usually entered through a free trial with a clock running. Spreadsheets are the true zero-cost default most shops start on. The free OEE Lab tracker sits between them: no trial clock, purpose-built OEE math and a downtime Pareto, plus a light CMMS (work orders, PM schedule, asset register) on top, where a spreadsheet stays a blank grid you have to build and maintain yourself.
What does Fabrico add once we outgrow manual logging?
Fabrico reads OEE automatically off your PLCs so nobody types in a shift, uses computer vision to find the true cause of each micro-stop with video evidence, and turns a detected loss into an auto-routed work order. It is EU-built with EU data residency and supports audit-readiness against ISO 27001, 20000-1 and 9001. Book a demo to see it against your own machinery data.
Do I need to talk to sales to start?
No. Open the free tracker and log your first shift right now, no account, no call. When you want the automated, multi-site version, book a Fabrico demo whenever you are ready.
When free is not enough, Fabrico is the upgrade
The free tracker gets a machinery or fabrication cell honest numbers fast, but you are still the one typing in the shift, chasing down why a changeover ran long, and writing the work order by hand. Once you are running more than one cell or line and the manual steps start costing more than they save, Fabrico takes over the whole loop: it reads OEE straight off your PLCs, uses computer vision to pin the true cause of every micro-stop on video, and auto-routes the resulting work order, all from one plant-wide, multi-site view with EU data residency. Book a Fabrico demo to see it running against your own machinery losses.
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